<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Meta pivots from metaverse to AI infrastructure</strong>: Meta is closing three VR studios and laying off 10% of its Reality Labs staff, shifting focus from the metaverse to AI-powered glasses and wearables. This comes after Reality Labs lost over $70 billion since 2021, posting a $4.4 billion loss in Q3 2025. The company is also launching “Meta Compute,” a massive AI infrastructure scale-up aiming for tens of gigawatts of power capacity, as reported by multiple sources including Meta’s own disclosures. This move signals a significant strategic reorientation for the tech giant. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7ystcAQPc&amp;id=2S31ZjKRT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google expands multimodal AI and developer tools</strong>: Google has released Gemini 3, a multimodal AI platform that processes text, images, video, audio, and PDFs with a 1M+ token context window, aiming for “programming gold medal performance.” They also launched Veo 3.1 for native vertical video creation and Conductor, a new extension for Gemini CLI that maintains project context via persistent Markdown files. These initiatives, detailed in Google’s communications, target enterprise, developer, and content creator segments, streamlining AI integration and workflow automation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=NEGZugNBg&amp;id=kwRMqebwB&amp;id=qjYQj2ENJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic restricts Claude Code tokens for third-party tools</strong>: Anthropic has begun strictly enforcing its terms of service, preventing the use of Claude Code subscription tokens with third-party tools like Cursor and Open Code. This policy shift, which requires users to pay significantly higher API prices for external access, has sparked controversy among developers who built workflows around these integrations. Sources suggest this move is driven by technical debugging challenges, competitive pressures, and unsustainable infrastructure costs, aiming to lock developers into Anthropic’s ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DEqFrm707&amp;id=jcpFkjQkx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Open-weight AI models show strong coding capabilities</strong>: New open-weight AI models, GLM 4.7 and MiniMax M2.1, successfully built a complex CLI task runner with 20 features, demonstrating agentic behavior and nearing the capabilities of frontier models at significantly reduced costs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/p3khbP8jU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Astro 6 beta adds Cloudflare Workers support</strong>: Astro 6 Beta introduces native support for Cloudflare Workers, a redesigned development server, stable live content collections, and improved Content Security Policy (CSP) support, requiring Node 22+ and upgrading to Zod 4. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/a23rECuU6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bun 1.3.6 enhances performance and features</strong>: Bun v1.3.6 introduces Bun.Archive for tarball handling, a JSONC parser, faster async/await and Response.json(), HTTP/HTTPS proxy support for WebSocket, and 45 bug fixes, improving Node.js compatibility and bundler stability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Wx4br4Zyw&amp;id=Yy5NFIIOM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js releases security updates</strong>: Node.js 20.20.0 (LTS) and 25.3.0 (Current) were released with security updates addressing multiple CVEs, enhancing permission handling, and updating external dependencies like c-ares and undici. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DwsoMgMKH&amp;id=Zr0Dv9dwZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WordPress 7.0 to drop PHP 7.2/7.3 support</strong>: The WordPress core team is preparing for version 7.0, which will discontinue support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3, and is seeking volunteers for the release process. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xho5u0zys" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel Simplifier plugin for Claude Code released</strong>: Taylor Otwell released the Laravel Simplifier plugin for Claude Code, an open-source tool adapted from Anthropic’s Code Simplifier, designed to review code commits for adherence to Laravel standards and PSR-12 guidelines. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Z70ay5WSd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Compose Multiplatform 1.10 launches with stable hot reload</strong>: JetBrains released Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0, featuring a stable Compose Hot Reload 1.0.0 that allows dynamic updates to running apps without losing state, along with a unified @Preview annotation and Navigation 3 for non-Android targets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=qzPVbng9O&amp;id=y1ZFPOP5i" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI verification bottleneck: more toil, less trust</strong>: Apparently, AI code generation is so good that developers are now spending more time verifying unreliable AI-generated code than they save writing it. While 72% use AI coding tools daily, 96% don’t trust the output, leading to increased technical debt and correction work. So, we’ve just shifted the toil from creation to verification, proving that cheap code often comes with expensive problems, as The New Stack points out. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=SVMT3qR0j&amp;id=1lxfdifYi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Shadow AI: the new, improved shadow IT problem</strong>: Just when you thought shadow IT was under control, here comes “Shadow AI”—AI tools adopted without oversight, creating security and governance nightmares. Unlike shadow APIs, these things ingest new data and operate with weak identity controls, leading to “identity collapse” where actions can’t be attributed. Nordic APIs warns that this is spreading rapidly, often using shared credentials. Because, clearly, giving autonomous agents unchecked access to everything is a brilliant idea. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yF1D00gr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI in ecology: trading fieldwork for algorithms</strong>: Ecologists are increasingly replacing traditional fieldwork with AI, machine learning, and automated sensors, because who needs to get their hands dirty when you have algorithms? While this allows for more data, some scientists are concerned about diminishing hands-on understanding and potential biases in remote data. It seems we’re prioritizing rapid, lab-based data processing over actual boots-on-the-ground research, probably because it looks better on a grant application, as a science-focused publication notes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YsLIINgTC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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